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J. E. TOTTEN.

l BUTTON. 2 No. 375,583. l Patented Deo.. l27, 188.7.

UNITED i STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. TOTTEN, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS..

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375.583, dated December 27, 1887.

Application filed June 15, 1887. Serial No. $241,399. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, JOHN E. To'r'rEN, of

North Attleborough, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same. My invention relates to buttons, and is more particularly designed for ornamental buttons, though its useA is not necessarily so limited'.

It is an improvement upon the form of button shown in the patent of Freeman, No. 335,803, of February 9, 1886, in which the button-head is connected to a shoe adapted to be shifted laterally by the movement of the head, so as to change the position of the post from the center to the side of the shoe for the' purpose of inserting or removing the button from the garment, and in an application filed by me May 23, 1887, Serial No. 239,098,for special devices for shifting the shoe laterally.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical section. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the parts in a different position; Fig. 3, a Mperspective view of a detail. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the camplate and the post with its cam. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of a modification. Fig. 7 is a detail view. Fig. 8 represents in perspective the essential operating parts in their properrelation to one another.

In this improvement, as in the original form shown in my aforesaid application, I use a iiat post, B, consisting of a ,metal plate, the form of which is preferably curved in the center, but with straight flanges 1 1. This post at its upper or outer end has fixed a metal disk, k, with a holein the center in line with the cavity or hollow of the post. The inner or lower end of the post is bent at right angles parallel with the disk or plate k,`and guides or directs the shoe in its lateral movement, and has anges 2 2 to embrace the edges of the plate d, so that the shoe is caused to move laterally when acted upon by the operating-post b, as hereinafter described, by means of the connection with the lat post B through the-plate d. The plate d is slotted from near one end to a little past the center to receive a post, b, preferably made round. This carries on its lower end a camplate, g, having a flange on its cam-ed ge marked h. This flange,when the post is inserted in its place through the slot, fits into the under face of the plate d, made to conform to the shape of the fiange, so that as the post is turned with the flange in the groove it is moved longitudinally of the slotthat is, from mid way of the plate d to the end, or the reverse. B is in its place, with its flanges 2 2 embracing the edge of the plate d, the post b passes up through the openings in the two angular extensions of the iiat post B, resting in the hollow of the said post B. The upper end of the operating-post b is fixed to the inner plate, h, of the button-front, so that when the buttonfront is turned it turns the post and moves the cam in its groove and shifts the shoe laterally, so that the relative position of the post B is changed from the center to the end of the plate d, or thereverse, and thus to or from the center of the shoe. The plate d is held in the shoe in the usual manner. This forms a cheap and rigid connection between the shoe and post, andit is not liable to get out of order.

In Fig. 1 I have shown a modified form of the cam in which, instead of the ange working in the groove, I form a curved eccentric slot,'1, in

the cam or lower end of post b, and the pin in the -lower face of the plate d projects into the curved slot, so that as the post is turned it is shifted toward the end near the center of the plate, or'the reverse.

The form first described is preferred; but this form is effective for the purpose, both being eccentric mechanisms for moving the post in and out.

I claim as my invention When the fiat post p 1. In combination, a plate, as d, slotted and connected to the button-shoe, a post, B, con'- nected to the plate d and adapted to direct the shoe in its lateral movement, a disk or plate on the outer end of said post B, and an operating-post, b, passing through and turning in the plate d, said post b being fixed to the buttonfront at its upper end, and having upon its lower end an eccentric mechanism working in connection with the plated, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the slotted plate d, the laterally-movin g button-shoe, a post, as B, adapted to direct and guide the lateral move- IOO ment of the shoe through the plate d, the post to give the shoe lateral movement, and a flat b, turning in said plate d and fixed to the butpost, B, for guiding the shoe, substantially as ton-front, and an eccentric on the lower end of described. the post having a ange, said ange engaging In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name 5 with the groove in the under surface of the to this specification in the presence of two sub- 15 plate d, substantially as described. scribing witnesses.

3. The combination herein described, con- J'OHN E. TOTTEN. sisting of a post, b,secu1ed to the button-head, Witnesses: a laterally-moving shoe, eccentric mechanism JOSEPH E. POND, Jr., 1o connecting said post and shoe and operating THOMAS TOTTEN. 

